The makers of sandbox destruction classic Just Cause 2 + the quintessential movie wasteland setting? Yes please! Er, just one thing… Could you maybe not involve World’s Worst Human BeingTM Mel Gibson? It’d kind of put a downer on things.

Fortunately, Warner make no mention of Mr Sugar Tits in their blurb about the game they’re calling simply Mad Max, and it’s also unclear as yet whether this relates to the original Max Max / Road Warrior films, or the upcoming, Bane-starring reboot called Fury Road.

Never mind, let’s have a CGI trailer and think about what Fallout With Cars might be like, eh?

“Scheduled for release in 2014, Mad Max will deliver dynamic, open-world gameplay where gamers fight to stay alive in The Wasteland, using brutal on-ground and vehicular combat against vicious gangs of bandits. Players are challenged with treacherous missions as they scavenge the dangerous landscape for supplies to build the ultimate combat vehicle.”

Out on PC, the dusty old toyboxes, the expensive new toybox and the outrageously expensive new toybox*. Tina Turner DLC is TBC.

* Hilariously, a man went apeshit at us on Twitter the other day because he felt personally offended by our long-running consoles/toyboxes joke. He’s the real Mad Max here.

Broadmeadows filmset DLC please.
Interestingly enough long gone Australian dev Ratbag (they were responsible for Powerslide) was working on a Mad Max alike game once http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR_iloTLjHk shame it never saw the light of day.

I have Powerslide. And my computer can’t even read the goddamn disk.
It made me sad, despite knowing nothing about it, since the manual went walkabout years ago and I never got to read it.
I just get a perverse thrill in owning the actual disk.
(By the way, anyone heard of a game called “Bedlam”? Same problem there. And since the cover art is brown sludge, I have no idea what it is.)

The only way our society can socially evolve is by throwing the subhumans off the mountain.

Great quote, but who decides what a subhuman is? And when we run out of subhumans and the public has a taste for throwing people off mountains, what then? Then we begin to persecute marginalised groups, deciding them to be subhuman. And we become the subhumans ourselves. That path is one of darkness.

Throwing assholes off mountains, on the other hand – I think we can make that work

Subhumans are the assholes who hold beliefs that regress our society and pull us to the past. Ones who attempt to conserve as opposed to progressing. Those who slow us down because of their emotional connection to their culture, nation, race, religion, etc.

Transhumans are their opposite, the ones higher up the mountain trying to drag the rest up with them.

how is this even debatable? mel gibson’s inclusion = money in mel gibson’s pocket. if anything, a hyperbolic parody of gibson would ridicule him, keep your money from his pockets, and likely piss him off all at once.

Subhumans, eh? Charming. I wonder if you support eugenics too? Then again, you are already advocating a form of ideological eugenics and using terms like “subhuman”, so it won’t be a huge jump.

Nationalism is hardly antisocial – it is a very much social activity. Internationalism may be in some of its extreme manifestations, though.

“Much like how two negatives equal a positive, being intolerant to the intolerant is a tolerant act.”

Please don’t do this to words. At least say that it is “progressive” or something. But intolerance is intolerance – what you’re trying to say here, I think, is that intolerance is okay.

“And the Posthuman is the top of the mountain we’re trying to get to.”

Don’t speak for the rest of us. Personally I think it is enough of a struggle to be human, and ideas such as yours drag us down from that pinnacle, and have thrown local civilisation down into the abyss before.

and yet “they” don’t hate the people who made the greatest story ever told.. or every christian ever, so maybe, JUST MAYBE, its not because he made a film about Jesus, but the content of the film and his actions outside of it.

According to this guy, the original Carmageddon started out as a Mad Max game. That didn’t work out somehow and it became a Death Race 2000 game. When that license fell through, too, they just decided to make their own game and ship it. And all was good. ;-)

Generally how it works is that people don’t complain about one thing for a set period and then forget about it. It’s possible to go quite long periods without even thinking about Mel Gibson. It’s just that when they are reminded of something they recall the last opinion they held on that subject. For example, “Mel Gibson? I remember him. He’s a twat.”

I guess, it’s just ridiculous to me. If an actors personal life affects the way that you watch their work, then people should at least be consistent with it – hate on everyone. It’ll be difficult to find an actor working today that doesn’t have crap in their private lives that they’ve done.

Besides, the majority of the stuff that people think they know of Gibson was proved to be nothing more than hearsay and lies – at least as far as the thing with the Russian ex-wife goes.

Saying essentially “Mel Gibson is not as bad as you think and anyway everyone is that bad” is certainly a bold debating strategy.

My position is that everyone is innocent until proven guilty and everyone gets a chance to redeem themselves bit if someone acts like a dickhead it’s entirely reasonable to call them a dickhead and Gibson is not a first time offender in that regard.

Well, reading it, if he really was the worst humant on earth, humanity would be way better than it is.
That being said I am not going to blame RPS for making an easy joke on someone who called for it. By getting alcoholic at the age of 13, according to your link. Bwahah, awful guy!

I love Mel Gibson, and I vastly prefer his lousy personal beliefs over all the puppets that walk around in Hollywood with their plastic smiles and statements that are coming straight from the studio suits.

Besides that I love his direction skills and the few movies he created are pretty decent in my book.

I am a bit confused on this statement, so you do know that Mel Gibson is not actually a Mad Max, he is just an actor who played that character. I mean, did you know that he is a twat in 1979 when this movie came out and suggested that his role should be edited out and especially not given role in another two movies? Well I speak only from my experiences but I just can commander myself to stop liking movies ( or any other types of things like books, music etc ) because people who made or collaborate in making them turn out to be twats or maybe even they were twats thirty years later. I mean I can totally relate to people who didn’t like Mad Max movies in the first place but this…vastly confusing.

This is RPS (a.k.a. Righteous, Persecutory and Sanctimonious) where the worst thing you can do is be sexist, followed by exhibiting any racism.

You need to understand that many of these guys are just getting into their early 30’s and feel a lot of guilt for the first decade of their adulthood and now are coming to the rescue…or maybe they were just raised by the granola-gang (a.k.a. the Berkley-bunch) and have been so sheltered that a racist/sexist comment really is the worst thing they can think of.

But this only applies to their narrow purview; do not mistake this for liberal ideology.

I’m a bit conflicted here. I don’t like hyperbole and I don’t like overreactions to hyperbole. It’d be nice if we could get rid of one without the other – and amusingly I think there are some parallels between this and the self-justifications provided by one of the Gibophobes earlier.

erm..maybe because he has some great artistic vision for starters..did you watch The Passion or Apocalypto? Also just to wind up all the people who have jumped on the moralistic bandwagon thats become uber trendy these days. There are way worse people than him..

The person with the artistic vision to create Mad Max was not Mel Gibsion, it was George Miller.

Mel Gibson flat out refused to participate in the new Mad Max movie, so I’d say his artistic vision for the series is nil. There is no reason for him to appear in this game. Outside of acting in it, Gibson has nothing to do with the creation of the series.

I do hope it’s not just racing around and bang bang boom for the sake of bang bang boom. It better be a dominant scavenging/survival mechanic that actually drives all the vehicle and physical fisticuffs, or it’s not Mad Max.

Mad Max is not much for vehicles shooting each other with mounted guns. It’s hardly that at all. It’s cars outracing each other and pounding into each other, with (american)football-padded lunatics shooting crossbows at each other while jumping from vehicle to vehicle (at times falling under the wheels in pleasingly violent ways). There were few mounted weapons on the vehicles. And they were of the weirder variety. Mounted dart guns and other such post-apocalyptic fun. No rockets. No machine guns.

It’s low-tech, often melee combat. With vehicles used as both platforms to fight from, and as actual weapons themselves.

There’s a lot to hope for, for them to really get a good Mad Max vibe. It could very easily drift into a Mad Max skin over a vehicular gun and rocket game.